Tim Mickelson (Professional Golf, Fatal Wildfires and Innovations in Engine Operations) - Episode 1246
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tim Mickelson is a professional golfer, caddie and the CEO of Cedar Valve. We discuss growing up in a golfing family, training the youth athlete, midfullness and performance, his brother Tim's success, caddying, learning from the tragic Cedar fire, innovating engine operations and so much more.
Tim Mickelson brings over 20 years of experience in both the sports industry and small business. After officially retiring in 2024, he returned in 2025 driven by his belief in Cedar Valve’s potential to transform fire industry standards. His objective: to put this innovative device on every fire engine in the United States and help protect countless firefighters, communities and structures.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Active 911, a respected leader in the emergency communication and |
| 0:06.2 | software field, providing alerting, mapping and seen resources for over half a million first responders |
| 0:13.5 | worldwide. Now, as you know, I only bring sponsors on this show who are, A, coming from an altruistic |
| 0:20.6 | place and B, truly bringing solutions to |
| 0:23.6 | problems and the origin story of active 911 begins with volunteer firefighter and tech entrepreneur |
| 0:30.6 | Joseph Sullivan after missing a critical call from a dispatch era Joseph set out to create a solution to ensure that we are not only dispatched on time, |
| 0:41.3 | but also provide us with resources and information for the call and location. |
| 0:47.3 | So there are three different products under the Active 911 umbrella. |
| 0:51.3 | The first is Active Alert, a dispatch system integrated into a CAD connection, |
| 0:58.0 | providing fast-reliable alerting, maps, data, pre-plans, hydrant locations, and even the locations of incoming units and their specialties. |
| 1:10.0 | The second arm is active Coms. Now, |
| 1:13.3 | many of us have experienced problems when it came to communication using our traditional radios, |
| 1:18.1 | so Active 911 found a way of tapping into the incredible capabilities of modern-day |
| 1:23.7 | smartphones and integrate that into our communication, providing both increased range |
| 1:29.4 | and low latency. So to learn more about Active 911 or to try their free trial, go to Active |
| 1:36.9 | 911.com. And if you want to hear more about the origin and spectrum of products that they offer, listen to |
| 1:45.3 | episode 1243 of the Behind the Shield podcast with the creator and founder Joseph Sullivan. |
| 1:53.9 | Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my |
| 1:58.3 | absolute honor to welcome on the show professional golfer |
| 2:02.1 | caddy and the CEO of Cedar valve Tim Mickelson. Now in this conversation we discuss a host of |
| 2:10.8 | topics from his father's military service, his family's introduction to the world of golf, his brother Phil's meteoric rise to success, |
| 2:21.4 | longevity in the youth athlete, the power of mindfulness, the tragic origin story of the |
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